First edition. Cr. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 178. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; crimson endpapers. First state of dust jacket with no mention of the Booker Prize.
Signed by Author to title page.
Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999. A sharp morality tale, in which two eminent old friends, both former lovers of the late Molly Lane, meet to pay their last respects and form a pact with disastrous consequences. "A savage, funny, satire on contemporary British manners and morals." –The Globe and Mail